Time flies!

Wow - it's now 16 days since my transplant, 10 days since I came out of hospital, and Christmas has been and gone!

My scar is healing well, I don't have to dress it anymore. It's still quite scabby and painful but thankfully looks all clean. So much bigger than I was expecting - from my groin all the way up to my hip bone. Quite neat n tidy though. We should get on with planning our tattoos!

Drugs wise, things are pretty heavy going. Think we've counted it's about 35 pills a day in total at the moment, but hopefully that'll drop off in the next few weeks. Side effects are manageable but still nasty - really bad shakes and tremors after I've taken each dose, still very over sensitive fingers and toes, I can't tolerate heat and cold well at all, which is odd. On top of that where before I used to get very cold feet, my temperature control seems to have gone the other way and I'm now often too hot - we've even had to switch to the summer duvet cover!

The nuttiest thing is how AWAKE I am. I'm barely managing 6 hours sleep a night before I'm all bright eyed and bushy tailed again, whereas before the surgery I could easily sleep 10 or 11 hours at a time, with a nap in the afternoon. :) I wake up wanting to do loads of things. It's really quite exhilarating! Once my body has started healing better it should hopefully start being able to catch up with my brain. That'll be fantastic. :)